Wild Wing Restaurants
{{Short description|Canadian fast food franchised restaurant}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Wild Wing Hospitality Inc.
| logo = Wild_Wing_logo.png
| logo_size = 280px
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| image = Wild Wing Parkway (June 2022).jpg
| image_size = 280px
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| image_caption = A Wild Wing restaurant in Scarborough, Toronto
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| industry = Restaurant chain
| founded = {{start date and age|1999}} in Sunderland, Ontario, Canada
| founder = Rick Smiciklas
| hq_location_city = King City, Ontario
| hq_location_country = Canada
| num_locations = 106 (December 2023){{cite web|url=http://www.wildwingrestaurants.com/about-us/locations/ |title=Locations |publisher=Wild Wings|access-date=2016-07-12}}
| area_served = Canada
| key_people = Clark McKeown (President/Owner)
| products = Chicken wings, Alcohol
| brands = Wild Wing Roadhouse
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| website = {{URL|www.wildwingrestaurants.com/}}
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Wild Wing Restaurants is a Canadian franchised restaurant chain that specializes in chicken wings, quick serve foods, and other related products.{{cite web|url=http://www.wildwingrestaurants.com/about-us/ |title=About Us |publisher=Wild Wings|access-date=2016-07-12}}
History
Wild Wing Restaurants Inc., originally known as Wild Wing, was established in Sunderland, Ontario, on March 17, 1999, by Rick Smiciklas.{{cite press release|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/766815/-r-e-p-e-a-t-canadian-wild-wing-restaurants-launching-lawsuit-vs-american-buffalo-wild-wings|title=Canadian-Wild Wing Restaurants Launching Lawsuit vs American Buffalo Wild Wings|publisher=Canadian Newswire}} Its main business is focused on flavoured chicken wings.{{cite news|url=http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=1a75d8e8-5be7-4a61-9ff8-5afef9d08d78|title=Wild about Wings|last=Eade|first=Ron|publisher=Ottawa Citizen|date=28 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221222310/http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=1a75d8e8-5be7-4a61-9ff8-5afef9d08d78|archive-date=21 February 2014}} By 2008, it had opened 32 franchise restaurants in Ontario, and by March 2016 it had 85 locations throughout Canada, primarily in Ontario.{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/6379580-wild-wing-moves-corporate-headquarters-to-king-city/|title=Wild Wing moves corporate headquarters to King City|last=Kelly|first=Tim|newspaper=King Connection|publisher=Metroland Publishing|date=7 March 2016|access-date=11 March 2016}} The business was acquired by Clark McKeown on March 5, 2015.
Operations
Wild Wing Restaurants headquarters is located in King City, a combined corporate office and restaurant that had a soft opening in early March 2016. It had previously had a temporary headquarters in Aurora.[http://www.wildwingrestaurants.com/franchising/ Contact info for Wild Wing head office] and has 85 locations, primarily in Ontario.
See also
References
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Category:Companies based in King, Ontario
Category:Fast-food poultry restaurants
Category:Restaurants in Ontario
Category:Restaurant chains in Canada
Category:Restaurants established in 1999
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